At times I am utterly disgusted with the human race. A few weeks ago, Harmanjeet Singh, 22 was killed after an altercation with three Nihangs — the radical Sikh warrior sect. He was being accused of chewing tobacco and being drunk near the Golden Temple, the Sikh’s holiest shrine. I am not going to enter into the theme of religious fanaticism, because that opens a can of worms for all religions. What shocks me is the fact that these three men believe they possess the “moral authority” to decide what is good or bad and the “legal authority” to execute another human being in less than one minute. The other thing that shocks me is that some men were around witnessing what was happening and not one of them seems to have said or done anything. At least they were not recording the execution on their mobiles. The whole tragedy was caught on a CCTV.
One newspaper commented that the protection of shrines is a highly sensitive issue for Sikhs and the consumption of tobacco, liquor or drugs on a holy site is considered an act of desecration; while another newspaper reported that the killing took place in a market just a few minutes’ walk from the Golden Temple.
Brother Carmel Duca MC
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